India, Aug. 20 -- Modern financial markets operate on silent digital rails, but a high-stakes war is raging under the surface. Security is no longer just an IT problem; it is becoming a race for economic survival as rogue threat actors use increasingly autonomous tools to attack global trading networks.

Senior financial regulators sounded a warning during the five-day Cyber Defence Symposium at the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM): AI is accelerating the global cyber arms race.

According to ANI, Avneesh Pandey, Executive Director at the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), said cyber defence is no longer a passive shield. Rather, it has become a high-stakes "contest of persistence".

Threat actors are constantly...